Terms

Lost Time Incidents = A person is injured at work and does not return to work either the next day or the next shift.
 
Incident = A person is injured at work but does not take any time off work.
 
Near Hits = An incident which could have resulted in injury or asset damage.
 
KPI = Key Performance Indicator
 
Stakeholder = a term to describe any organisation or individual that has a direct interest in actions or decisions. Their interest may be because they will have a role in implementing the decisions, or because they will be affected by the decision. E.g. Shareholders, Employees, Contractors, Hauliers.

Safety Performance (to the end of Dec 08)

Employee Lost Time Incidents for 2008 have been met with Zero recorded LTI (note the LTI for 2008 involved a Contractor)
Combined Incident Rates (employee/contractors) have reduced on average by 70% since 2000. The last recorded Lost Time Incident to an Employee was March 2003--see graph 1

Graph 1 - Number of Lost Time Incidents (Employees and Contractors)

Similarly Non Lost Time Incidents have seen a 70% reduction from our 2000 base year with a drop from 44 to 7 recorded NLTI (year end 2008) - see graph 2.

Graph 2 - Number of Non-Lost Time Incidents (Employees and Contractors)

Several of our units have achieved over 2000 days (6 years) without a Lost Time Incident.

incident triangle

Safety Initiatives

  • We have instigated a 5 Year Plan to revitalise Safety at all levels – Top level down, shop floor up.
  • Safety Champions will be retrained and empowered to tackle unsafe acts and behaviour.
  • Behavioural audits (Climate Surveys) will be carried out to maintain the effectiveness of our initiatives.
  • Active promotion of Zero Tolerance Target Zero - O.T.T.O.
  • We have set bottom up incident targets for each business unit.
  • We have an employee incentive scheme for eliminating lost time incidents.
  • MQP promotes a fair blame culture that views all incidents as preventable.
  • Safety Committee members have attended the Epic training course for 'Increasing the Effectiveness of Safety Committees'.
  • Company car drivers have attended courses on defensive driving.
  • Pedestrian segregation has been put in place.
  • We have implemented additional situational hazard awareness training for all employees and contractors. (Rule of 3)
  • We have implemented a program of task auditing safety observations to root out unsafe acts and behaviour.
  • All our Fixed and Mobile Plant team members have gained NVQ level 2.
  • All Franchise Hauliers have attended the EPIC Driver Skills card training.
  • The majority of Supervisors/Managers have gained the SHE NVQ levels 3-5.

Safety Success

At the 2008 QPA safety awards Ettingshall Asphalt won 2nd place for an innovative engineering solution to safely replace mixer tip blades.
For the 6th year running MQP remain 'best in class' in the QPA members incident statistics, recording Zero Employee LTI for 2008 (see www.safequarry.com)

Safety Targets

For the year 2008:

  • We achieved zero Employee LTIs but failed to meet the combined (Employees, Contractors, Hauliers) target of zero, recording 1 LTI (Contractor) for 2008.
  • We achieved a NLTI target of 7.
  • We achieved zero Prohibition/Improvement notices

2009 Targets

  • LTI target of zero.
  • NLTI target of 6.
  • Zero Prohibition/Improvement notices
  • Zero Health incidents.
  • All sites audited to BSI 14001/18001.
  • All Hauliers to achieve the EPIC Drivers Skills card.
  • All Supervisors, Managers and Exec to carry out Safety Observations.

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